CHAPTER 31 #2
Slowly, slowly, she opened her thighs, allowing him to slip between her legs.
Gauge didn’t immediately move up. He spent time at her feet, finding her toes tipped with sharp claws.
They weren’t quite as long as the claws on her fingers, but shoes would still be a problem.
He kissed his way up her shins, admiring the softness of her warm, pliable scales.
If he closed his eyes, he might not notice much of a difference between her scales and normal skin. But the scales would help protect her.
Lena began to squirm again as he reached the back of her knees.
Another sensitive spot. Her breathing increased when he began to lick and kiss up the inside of her thighs.
He stopped for a moment over her femoral artery, knowing he would take blood from her here one day.
If she continued to need blood, she would take blood from him there too. It would enhance their sexual pleasure.
Her hands went back to his hair as he moved over her groin. Instead of pushing him away, she was pulling him to her, pressing her hips up against him. Good, instinct was taking over. Gauge licked up her center, fighting not to grin when she moaned and spread her legs wider, making room for him.
“Gauge, please. I feel like I might explode.”
Good, little one, he thought. “Let it happen, Lena. Don’t try to fight.
You will enjoy this.” He didn’t wait for her to respond.
Instead, he opened the soft folds covering her feminine sheath, using his tongue to enter her.
When she started to buck, he had to reach for her hips to slow her down, wanting the pressure to build more slowly.
“Please, please, please,” she murmured over and over.
When he’d teased her enough and could find no trace of Ngozi in her thoughts, Gauge moved to her clitoris, pressing the flat of his tongue against the small pleasure button.
Lena hissed, her fists tightening in his hair. Gauge stayed close in her mind, half afraid he might go with her when she orgasmed. Surely a Hunter of his age could control his own body. He almost chuckled, suspecting he was in new territory here.
He felt her body tighten, and the quick rise as she raced toward bliss.
Gauge backed out of her mind at the last second, her clit pulsing against his tongue as she released a deep, guttural groan, then screamed out her pleasure.
He backed away, pressing gentle kisses to her hips and belly as she slowly relearned how to breathe again.
When Lena’s hands released his hair and dropped to the bed, he looked up, surprised to see tears in her eyes, an almost shocked expression on her face.
Gauge sat up, suddenly worried. “Lena, did I hurt you?”
She swallowed hard, then swallowed again, her gaze slowly moving to him. “I didn’t know it could be like this. I didn’t know one could gain pleasure this way.”
“Did you enjoy it?”
“I . . . yes. Very much.”
Gauge moved up to sit beside her, drawing Lena’s limp body into his arms. “There are many ways a male and female can enjoy each other’s bodies. This is only one of them. Your mother didn’t teach you about sex?”
“No, not really. I mean, with serpents, you sometimes see a couple mating outside their dwelling. It’s not like I didn’t know what to expect. But I’ve never seen a couple do what you just did to me.”
Gauge smiled, tugging her closer against him. “Oral sex can be considered more intimate than straight intercourse. I’m sure it is done among the serpents, just not out in the open. Some dominant males consider it emasculating to give a female an orgasm with their mouth and tongue.”
“You don’t feel that way?”
“No. It is natural, and I suspect even those males who don’t want others to know enjoy it in private. A female’s scent can be most arousing.”
“Do females do the same with their males?” He caught her hand when she started to reach for his erection.
“Yes, but I don’t want you to worry about that right now.” He chuckled. “It is considered foreplay, but I am in no need of any right now.”
Lena pushed up high enough to look him in the eye. “Do you want me now?”
“Very much, but only if you are ready.”
She nodded. “I am.”
“Then come to me. You are still in control, Lena.”
She didn’t hesitate to sit up, her gaze dropping to his erection for a moment before she crawled over his lap. “Will you help me?”
“Of course.” Gauge had to work to keep his expression calm as Lena crawled higher up his body.
He’d buried his physical needs for so many years, buried any emotions, that releasing them became a real challenge.
“Take hold of me, Lena. Guide me to your entrance, then you control how slow or fast the penetration.” Of course, he meant to stay tight to her thoughts so he would know if she started to feel uncomfortable.
Gauge fought not to close his eyes, shivering as she took hold of him, her touch hesitant to start, but when he didn’t react, she grew bolder, sliding the pad of her fingers over the weeping tip of him.
It surprised him when she brought some to her mouth, tasting him.
He watched her carefully, but she only appeared curious, not repulsed.
Climbing higher up his body, she guided the tip of him to her entrance. Gauge did close his eyes then, fighting not to thrust up as she slowly began to work him inside her. It felt like an eternity passed before she came to rest against his groin.
“I feel full, but it doesn’t hurt,” she said, eyes wide as she looked up at him. “You are so big. I felt sure it would hurt.”
He smiled, cupping her face. “If you are properly prepared ahead of time, it should never hurt, Lena. If it hurts, we are doing it wrong.”
“What do I do now?” she asked.
“Follow your instincts. Do whatever feels good to you. I promise it will also feel good to me.”
Lena nodded as she began to rock against him. When her eyes closed and she tipped her head back, obviously enjoying the new sensations, Gauge took hold of her hip and began to slowly guide her into a stronger rhythm, lifting her enough to give him room to thrust back inside.
Lena groaned, her movements becoming more frantic. Gauge fought to maintain control, waiting for her to reach peak again before he let himself go. “Harder,” she said, her tone almost guttural. “Harder, Gauge. Help me.”
He didn’t need any more permission than that.
Gauge tightened his grip on her hip, lifting and thrusting.
He opened a connection between them, allowing her to feel what he felt, the strong muscles of her vagina gripping him, pulsing around him.
He allowed her to feel how close to the edge he was. It was all it took.
Lena screamed, her claws digging into his shoulders and arms as her body stiffened.
Gauge grunted, thrusting once, twice, then he saw stars as he exploded inside her, leaving the channel wide open between them.
Lena would feel everything he felt, his awe that this one small female could bring out such passion in him.
She would feel his love for her, and he could feel everything she felt, her wonder and excitement, her desire to have this happen again and again and again between them.
She finally understood what Ngozi had done was not making love.
True lovemaking was never meant to be so violent or painful.
When their bodies had both calmed, he eased her off him, then pulled her into his arms, her head resting on his chest, both limp, their lust sated. For now.
“Thank you,” she murmured, kissing his chest.
Gauge chuckled softly. “No, thank you, Lena. I will do my very best to make you a good mate.”
“You already are,” she whispered, then her breathing evened out and she fell into a natural sleep.
Gauge lay for a long while with Lena in his arms, thinking about what had taken place between them.
Not once had he felt the need to take her blood during the act, which he found odd.
His kind always felt a need to take blood during sex.
It helped enhance the orgasm in the female.
Not that Lena had needed more. He sensed she had almost passed out as it was.
But still, why had he not even thought about it?
Perhaps she wasn’t the only one who was changing. As they’d mentioned many times already, no one knew what to expect between a serpent and Laizahlian mating, though he suspected they would soon find out.